Pangaea on Nostr: Thank you so much for this Bitcoin And... episode and also for the related one ...
Thank you so much for this Bitcoin And... episode and also for the related one interviewing Liminal. The same themes and great ideas and inspiration has also surfaced in those podcast episodes of yours in which Obsidian is discussed. So much to think about. There is so much nuance and so many rich edges in the new landscape being opened up for us in Nostr and similar tech stacks. I appreciate the hard work you have done in putting a dent into revealing the power (as in empowering) and characteristics of Nostr and it's exponential potential to reboot our world and time.
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I have always found it a challenge to file my notes, writings, drawings in the "correct" folder, file or pile since they NEVER usually just lived in one theme, topic, project, folder, file... I think that the tools and way of doing/looking at things which you remind me of, or have introduced me to, will greatly facilitate in organizing, editing, reworking and revealing surprising connections in my pile of writings and drawings which i have amassed over the decades and am now trying to move and group/package to fruitful ends. Since i am not amassing so many more new writings now and am, instead, in the distilling and organizing phase, i am looking forward to what can come out of using a tool like Nostr to facilitate that proces. The challenge is also how to best work all this together given that i swim in both the analogue (paper, pen(cil), drawing, printed) and digital, internet, online world.
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Getting some more snippets of the technical details of Nostr's many different kinds, events, media type and what requirements or elements make up an event/note/type was useful and invites me to want to delve further into this juicy world. I am still trying to grasp and catch up with the Nostr lingo, though i am confident in what i have and can already do and sometimes even see the golden thread linking back to the fundamentals, founding principles of IT, computers and of the freedom and simple power of the internet in its earlier manifestations.
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Perhaps a nice simple statement about Nostr--from the perspective of a very early beginner--is that there appear to be much fewer (or no) layers--e.g./i.e.: technology, permissions, trust, deceit, control, manipulation) between oneself and the Nostr network/technology. It was fascinating to learn in John Michael Greer's book, "The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future", about how one can choose, mix, match, customize, design, integrate,... the tools, technologies, worldviews, ways of living, (sub)cultures,... desired. These can include: the same or different cultural norms; the characteristics and what is done by in your particular cultural-geographic place; or from a particular time in history to be mimicked or or pulled from. Nostr would be one of those options or tech stacks in my particular lifestyle design* palette, table of contents, quiver or menu. Anyways, the author explains it way more eloquently than i. If you would like to hear the author interviewed about this book, where he does speak about this conscious choosing and designing of one's life, then check this episode of the Legalize Freedom podcast:
https://legalise-freedom.com/shows/john-michael-greer-the-retro-future-looking-to-the-past-to-reinvent-the-future/
* I first heard the term lifestyle design through Jack Spirko host of the Bitcoin Breakout and the Survival Podcast.Hear an interview of him on the Legalize Freedom podcast:
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I love how you challenge the "superiority" of the mainstream, centralized, walled gardens of the large social medias and show that they are really infantile attempts and highly manipulated compared to the open, exploring, emergent of Nostr--even though temporaly and as far as network effect, Nostr is in its infancy. The non-liinearity and emergent characteristics of such systems as Nostr and the new flow of information is hugely attractive, mind shattering with its unexpected connections and revelations. Thank you for providing and explaining the various tools and pattern language of this creating, sharing and emergence of media--including to remind us that the hierarchical and logical flow and set up of documents/media can be just as important as the non-linear. In continuing my notes for this episode, i am trying to fathom the final version of, including the extensive index of concepts you have introduced or enumerated. I noticed that index came up in the podcast. I have found it quite empowering over the years to create my own indeces as this presents information in a multifaceted, searchable, organized and powerful way; though i could see it also working in non-linear ways or where unexpecteds arise.
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Also, i really like the "Thinking Day" (versus your "News Day") genre or category format of your podcast and that you differentiate in this way. If you have heard of teacher, author and business woman Carol Sanford, she has some interesting things to say about diferentiation and how this links to entrepreneurship.
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I appreciate also that you eloquently weave in the Bitcoin and Nostr conversation with permaculture, natural patterns and the like. It is important that both the permaculture ~ regen community learns more from the Bitcoin ~ Nostr community and vice versa although there surely is not line seperating the two.
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Maybe you or others might find the Thank God for Nostr Podcast series on McLuhan of interest--including the third and last in the series in which the podcast hosts interview the 3rd and living generation in the McLuhan line continuing to carry the legacy torch--since the conversations cover similar themes as covered in this episode of Bitcoin and..., invite us to think about media as well as offering some tools on how to possibly go about that questioning, exploring & comprehension of media and our technologies in general.
You might have hear the quote by Marshall McLuhan?:
"The medium is the message."
Thank God for Nostr (TGfN) podcast series on McLuhan:
TGfN. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
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https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/bad53a91-ba7a-4c70-bb89-189a61a01372/audio/5e7c765b-2fbe-497e-90ed-4786ccdf4927/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA
TGfN. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan Part 2
(2 of 3)
https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/fe783e6f-b92c-4b8d-8064-bb8a96e8728b/audio/e051b998-dea2-466f-9342-046131417d2a/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA
TGfN. Andrew McLuhan
(3 of 3)
https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5593cac6-4a82-40ea-9a38-e19a1c9c6c0a/episodes/4b552187-ee6f-4ee0-8a87-d2ee8e4ae1a6/audio/354cfef9-886c-49ba-9f00-f7b1e6a6e70f/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=VsKScJdA
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I am greatful for having discovered you via Jack Spirko's excellent the Survival Podcast.
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Fare ye well.